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if any autobot does anything fucked up or bad, i’ll be the first person to call them on it... except g1 rodimus, he can blow up as many planets as he wants

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Hello! This is an interest check for a potential for-profit Transformers fan zine focusing on any and all transformers who turn into animals (real or fictional) or who have animal-themed robot modes.

Any further questions should be sent to this blog or to admin @flowspade

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thats how it went right

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m*gop server pt. 1

this post will be split into 2 parts. pls read/reblog both for as much clarity on the situation as possible.

WARNINGS FOR TALK OF: abuse, rape/noncon, csa/pedophilia, slavery, child/infant death, and incest

first off im going to request that BEFORE you spread this, please block the following urls: m/egopsessed, kusakichan/15, g/emmaroses, i/amtypinglike98madmen, and tf-graves/teel. these are the users shown in this post.

so ive recently gotten ahold of some receipts for some nasty behavior taking place in a megop discord server named I Smell Megop Here. to make a long story short, the server has been rampant with the sharing of gross immoral nsfw content, all in the presence of minors to boot.

this post is being made for info spreading and blocking purposes only.

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It’s logical.

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Requested by bubbleyewstar

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u know what… just keep scrolling…

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Patterson Gimlin Film

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Shockwave Saturday

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summary of almost every post i make these days

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hello lgbt community i’m KIRA your favourite angry brown tf blogger who breaks down harmful shit so you don’t have to!! follow for direct access to your local truth coming out of her well to shame mankind and also a fun experience bc i obviously do more than just expose the sins of man (though for a more streamlined ~fun~ experience do follow my art blog @arcanamagnus as well 🤍) either way thnx for the attention bye

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i remember gathersgarden calling out the barbarian/slavery AUs way back in like 2014 (maybe even earlier than that? it was a looong while ago) and it's baffling to me that it's like... still a fucking problem in 2020

anyway, if u read/write/draw that stuff or are friends with/support anyone who does, get the fuck out of here, this is not up for debate with me (and if u bothered to read my byf you'd already know that)

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ok so i figured i’d make a full breakdown post about the ever popular “barbarian AU” you commonly find in the transformers fandom and why it is every bit as racist as the also staggeringly common slavery AUs. 

this is rather long post but it is by no means comprehensive and there is a little tl;dr at the end if these content warnings or the post length intimidate you

cws for: colonialism, racism against indigenous people & antiblackness, xenophobia, racist fetishisation, rape, kidnapping, slavery

first, let’s define the beast: the so-called “barbarian AU” involves two different cultures of mechs, one that lives in cities (“citymechs”) and another that has some other traditional lifestyle (“barbarians”), these groups are often antagonistic towards each other and sometimes do not speak the same language. another common feature of note is that, in these stories, “barbarians” often kidnap “citymechs” as brides, and this is what the plot of most fics set in this AU centre on.

1st point of contention: “barbarian”

calling traditional non-Western forms of social organisation “barbaric” is racist, plain and simple. the term “barbarian” comes from the latin word for “outsider” and was used to denote societies resistant to roman colonisation. it was first imported into middle english as xenophobic term for a person with different speech and customs has since come to mean, lifted straight from the dictionary, “an uncultured or brutish person”. similarly, the word “barbaric” can mean “savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal” or “primitive; unsophisticated”. this evolution of meaning is decurrent of racist and xenophobic stereotypes perpetuated by europeans in order to justify war and colonisation. you will often see eurocentric sources refer to indigenous religious practices or even leisure activities as “barbaric” and exaggerate them in order to justify invasion and genocide.

this brings us to the 2nd point of contention: the dynamic

this setup of having contrasting societies where one has a typical late medieval/early modern european urban organisation whereas the other has any manner of nomadic or “tribal” traditional organisation, having the relationship between them be antagonistic and the traditional society being a constant threat to the urban society’s values and livelihood is ripped straight up from settler colonial imaginary.

which leads to the 3rd point of contention: the plot

as stated all the way back in the 1st point, eurocentric sources love to exaggerate indigenous traditions and invent completely new ones in order to further demonise those people so as to have a justification to enslave and decimate them. most of the barbarian AU writers’ depiction of the “barbarian” society and its traditions would feel right at home among those sources.

primarily, though, we must talk about the “barbarian kidnaps citymech as bride” plot. this is LITERALLY a colonialist fearmongering trope. white settlers built up an entire mythology of men of colour stealing virtuous little white women in order to further demonise indigenous people AND THAT NOTION IS ALIVE TO THIS DAY in the myth of the black rapist and the white woman’s fear of assault by men of colour. a very pernicious thing that is often left out is: the one’s who actually kidnap another ethnicity’s women and girls to use as servants and sex slaves ARE WHITE MEN, and that has not changed form in the past 500 years. indigenous women and girls are STILL kidnapped by white settlers to serve as “wives” and it’s not uncommon, at least in my country, for someone to refer to their indigenous grandma or whatever as having been “taken by the lasso”, which is painfully literal.

the romance between indigenous kidnapper and settler victim is also straight from colonialist white female fantasies, a whirlwind romance between a savage and his stolen civilised bride. it is derived from white women’s fetishisation of men of colour (though it would still apply were the genders flipped or switched) and the so-called “jungle fever” of white chasers. these people are obsessed with “dominating” a “savage” person of colour like some neo-slaveowner bullshit (and again i must tell you, most ~famed romances~ between white slaveowners and their slaves were in fact coercion at best and violent rape at worst, yes even in the case of white mistresses and male slaves) except they want to do that in their beau’s own “domain”, where they can escape white patriachy and establish their own “rule” by virtue of their whiteness and the superiority it affords.

tl;dr: barbarian AU is a colonialist wet dream based 100% on stereotypes and myths created by european settlers in the early days of settler colonialism, and perpetuate racist notions that actively contribute to fetishisation and assault of people of colour to this day. read a fucking book on the horrors of colonialism and come back when you’ve learnt to behave

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Official prompt list for the July 2020 instance of Rare Fave Month! Thank you infinitely to all who contributed to the making of this list!!

Reminder to tag your Rare Fave Month entries with #rarefavemonth so they can be shared on this blog, even if you do not follow this prompt list

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hello friends, followers and tf victory fans in general! if you’re over 18, not a freak or asshole, and would like a friendly environment to talk about transformers victory and its characters, i invite you to my discord server, which has actually been in the works for quite the while now

please read the rules when you join and if you feel you cannot follow them then kindly take yourself out :3